The brow was broad and fine, and the dark eyes set deep under it; the nose, too, was good, but the chin and mouth were too small for the proportions of the face.

The mouth, indeed, was so curiously puckered, and the lower lip so thick and prominent, as to give something of a comic effect.

The skin was yellow, but stretched so firm and hard on the cheek bones that the sallowness did not look unhealthy.
The man wore an old suit of blue jeans and his pantaloons did not meet his coarse unblacked shoes by six inches.

His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace.
"Abe," said Mr.Curtin, "I would like to make you known to my friend Mr.
Stanton of Ohio." The queer face broke into a pleasant smile, and the long man held out his hand.
"Glad to know you, Mr.Stanton," he said, and then seemed to be stricken with shyness.

His wandering eye caught sight of a new patent churn which had just been added to Mr.Speed's stock.